Lahore University of Management Sciences, also known by its

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LUMS, is a

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, Pakistan. Founded in 1985, it is ranked as one of the most prestigious modern universities in Pakistan. In 1984, Syed Babar Ali recognized the shortage of qualified managers in the country. He proposed to establish a world-class university that would attract and retain the highest caliber of students and faculty. He shared this idea with fellow businessman and close friend, Abdul Razak Dawood, who was in full support of the vision. The university has since then expanded, launching a

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undergraduate school in 1994, an

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in 2008, a

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in 2004 and an education school in 2017. The university launched a National Outreach Programme (NOP) in 2001 to provide financial aid to students and in 2015, in partnership with

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, launched
scholarship programme for Afghan students
to diversify its student body. As of 2025, the university has a student body of 5,768 graduate and undergraduate students, a faculty of 300 out of which nearly three-quarters have

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. Its campus, where more than half of its student population and faculty lives, spreads over 100 acres. Its business school is accredited by

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. It is also one of two business schools in Pakistan to be certified by the South Asian Quality Assurance System and is ranked as one of the top business schools in the country. The university is also a member of

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and among the top 400 universities globally in

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. In 2020, LUMS was ranked 40 globally in "World's Best Small Universities" by Times Higher Education, being the only Pakistani university on the list. Following a liberal arts curriculum, LUMS is one of Pakistan's most expensive, selective and progressive universities. LUMS counts several prominent Pakistani

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s and public figures among its alumni and current and former faculty including Umar Saif, Hina Rabbani Khar,

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, Arif Zaman, Amer Iqbal, Ayesha Jalal, Asad Abidi, Osama Siddique and Pervez Hoodbhoy. It also counts several

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and

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scholars among its alumni.

History

The university was granted a charter by the government of Pakistan in 1985. The LUMS Board of Trustees comprises members of the domestic business community, academics and government representatives. The principal functions of the board are to set policy guidelines and to review the operations of the university. The Board of Governors, as the sponsor of LUMS, raises funds for the university's operation and maintenance. In 1986, a business school by the name of Lahore Business School was established for an MBA Programme. Later the school was renamed and is known as Suleman Dawood School of Business. After the construction of the current campus, LUMS started undergraduate programmes in Economics and Computer Sciences in 1994. In 1996, the School of Arts and Science was introduced to oversee the undergraduate programmes. LUMS established the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law to oversee the Social Sciences, Economics and Law departments. The School of Sciences and Engineering, for the disciplines of Mathematics, Computer Science and other science subjects, was established in 2008. In 2016, the university charges Rs. 272,400 tuition fee per semester for undergraduate students. From 2020, the university changed the fee structure to a credit-based system. For the year 2021–2022, the per credit hour tuition fee was Rs. 23,760. LUMS launched the National Outreach Programme (NOP) in 2001 to reach out to bright students from underprivileged areas of Pakistan. Under this initiative, induction of selected candidates into the academic programs is facilitated by preparation for the university's admission criteria and then by a provision of full financial assistance to those who qualify. Many students are admitted to LUMS on the basis of the NOP. There are very few number of scholarships that are offered on need/academic achievement basis. LUMS loan scheme covers 20%-100% of the tuition fee component of the student. LUMS loans are interest-free. According to LUMS, it has disbursed PKR 3.2 billion in financial assistance, with approximately 30% of the student body receiving some form of financial assistance each year. During the academic year 2015-16 alone, LUMS disbursed more than PKR 500 Million as financial aid to its students. As of 2016, more than 800 scholars have benefited from the LUMS National Outreach Programme (NOP). In 2017, the Shahid Hussain Foundation established scholarships for international undergraduate students from

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member countries. LUMS also offers a variety of scholarships to MBA students such as SAARC scholarship, MCB interest-free loans. It is the only institute in Pakistan offering the Asian Development Bank-Japan Scholarship Program (ADB-JSP).

Not-for-profit status

LUMS is a federally chartered university and is approved as a not-for-profit organisation under section 2(36) of

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Ordinance, 2001 in terms of provisions of Clause 63 of Part IV of Second Schedule to the Ordinance. Any individual or organisation making donations to LUMS is entitled to a tax credit under section 61 of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001. Moreover, the university has been granted exemption from the levy of income tax under Section 159 of the Ordinance, thus, tax is not deductible on payments made to the university.

Campus

Lahore University of Management Sciences Hostels

The oldest building at LUMS is the two-storey Academic Block designed by Habib Fida Ali which spreads over an area of 150,000 sq. ft. The Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS) is based in this building. The five-storey Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB) building occupies an area of 160,000 sq. ft, and accommodates over 1300 students. The Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering (SBASSE) is based in a 5-storey building which covers an area of 300,000 sq. ft; the building includes a 10MW electrical grid station and 20 research labs. The latest addition to the building is National Incubation Center in the basement. The Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law (SAHSOL) spreads over an area of 78,000 sq. ft and comprises auditoriums, discussion rooms, faculty offices, meeting rooms, the Centre for Chinese Legal Studies and a state of the art moot court which is a replica of the courtroom of the Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court. More than half of the student body at LUMS lives on campus, which includes seven male and five female hostels. The Syed Maratab Ali Sports Complex includes a school gym and sports facilities for basketball, tennis, cricket and squash. The Pepsi Dining Centre (PDC) covers an area of 14,000 sq. ft, and was funded by

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. The Coca-Cola Aquatic Centre includes an

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and is funded by a Rs. 22 million grant from

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. A new female hostel (F6) is being constructed with Rs. 350 million in funding from the Syed Babar Ali Foundation. The new hostel building will be able to accommodate an additional 504 female students and will provide additional facilities such as breakout places, tea and coffee kiosks, and an open courtyard. The LUMS library provides services that include loans, online information searching, reference services, inter-library loan, document delivery, photocopying, viewing of audiovisual and microfilm materials, access to virtual collections and digital resources, CD-ROM and online searching. It has a collection of 350,000 volumes, 128,000 e-books and 35,000 e-Journals. The library has a multidisciplinary wing (the Khalid Ishaq Wing) dedicated to jurist and scholar Khalid M. Ishaq, who donated 92,957 books from his collection to the library. The campus also hosts a variety of animals. The most common animals found on campus are cats. The friendly cats are protected and fed by the Animal Welfare Society at LUMS.

Academics

The university provides 18 undergraduate majors and 24 graduate degrees. The university consists of five schools which are further divided into various departments.

Suleman Dawood School of Business

The Suleman Dawood School of Business was the first school established at LUMS in 1986. The school's curriculum was designed in partnership with

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. The school offers full-time MBA, a week-end Executive MBA, a course-based PhD Management and Bachelor's programmes in Accounting and Finance and Management Science. The school also offers minors in public management and computational finance. The school is led by Dr Fazal Jawad Seyyed along with Dr. Faiza Ali, Dr. Adeel Zaffar, Dr. Zehra Waheed and Dr. Tanveer Shehzad serving as Associate Deans' of Research, External Relations, Undergraduate Academics and Graduate Academics respectively. Between 2018 and 2023, the School was headed by Professor Alnoor Bhimani. Suleman Dawood School Of Business

The school has research linkages with many renowned universities including

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, and Management Development Institute. On 14 November 2020, SBSD introduced hybrid class structure to balance safety and class-instruction quality during the coronavirus pandemic led by Dr. Syed Aun R. Rizvi then Associate Dean Academics. In 2020, SBSD's Muhammad Abdullah scored the highest marks and was declared the global winner in ACCA's Strategic Business Reporting exam.

Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences

The School of Humanities and Social Sciences, named after Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani, consists of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Economics. DHSS offers undergraduate degrees in Anthropology/Sociology, History, English and Political Science, as well as a combined programme in Politics and Economics in conjunction with the Economics Department. The school also offers minors in political Science, Economics, History, English literature, Urdu literature, Religious studies, Sociology/Anthropology. Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Started in 1999, the Department of Humanities and Social Science is home to disciplines in the Social Science and Humanities including Anthropology and Sociology, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology and History. The Economics Department offers four-year undergraduate programmes in Economics (the first class graduated in 1997), economics and mathematics and a graduate programme in Economics (the first class graduated in 2002). Economics is one of the most popular majors at LUMS and a significant percentage of the student body at LUMS studies Economics as a major, as part of a joint degree programme or as a minor. The school is headed by Dr. Ali Khan. Lums_main_building_interior

Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering

The School of Science and Engineering, named after Syed Babar Ali, is a school within LUMS modelled on MIT no boundaries approach. It offers undergraduate programs in Biology, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Physics; and graduate programs in Computer Science, chemistry, physics, electrical engineering and Mathematics. A vast majority of BS graduates join leading graduate and Phd programs of some of the leading universities of the world such including

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, Cornell,

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. The school is headed by Dr. Muhammad Sabieh Anwar. Syed Babar Ali School Of Science And Engineering

Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law

The groundbreaking ceremony of LUMS' fourth school, Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law, took place on Saturday, 5 April 2014 on campus. The chief guest at the ceremony was the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani. The law school has been named after (late) Shaikh Ahmad Hassan. The establishment of SAHSOL has grown out of the LUMS Department of Law and Policy, which has been functioning since 2004, offers a 5-year joint BA-LL.B undergraduate programme, accredited by the Pakistan Bar Council. The school is led by Sadaf Aziz. Shaik Ahmad Hassan School of Law

LUMS School of Education

On 6 January 2017, LUMS announced the establishment of its fifth school, the LUMS School of Education. The exploratory phase for the LUMS School of Education was initiated in October 2015 with funding from the Babar Ali Foundation. According to university sources, over the course of the project phase, the team established local, regional and international links through events such as the inaugural Education Roundtable at LUMS in March 2016. The school will be home to the following programs, starting in Fall 2018. # MPhil Education Leadership and Management # A minor in education for undergraduate students at LUMS.

People

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), theoretical physicist, known for his work on

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and supersymmetric gauge theories. * Ismat Beg (PhD,

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), mathematician, known for his work on

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, and

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. * Syed Sohail Hussain Naqvi, Vice chancellor * Arif Zaman (PhD,

), statistician and mathematician, known for his work on statistics and computer science. *

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, Adjunct Faculty, International Relations * S. Azmat Hassan, Adjunct Faculty, International Relations * Ayesha Jalal (PhD,

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), Visiting Faculty, History * Rasul Baksh Rais (PhD, Santa Barbara), Professor of Political Science * Irshad Hussain (PhD,

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, UK), Professor at Department of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering. * Asad Abidi (PhD, Berkeley) holds the inaugural Abdus Salam Chair at LUMS. * Moeen Nizami *

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* Iqbal Ahmad Khan, ambassador to Iran

Vice-chancellors

Notable alumni

* Hina Rabbani Khar - former Foreign Minister of Pakistan, currently member of the

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* Aleema Khanum - Prime Minister Imran Khan's sister, MBA Class of 1989 * Umar Saif - Former Chairman PITB Punjab * Bilal Khan - Singer * Ismat Beg - Mathematician *

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- Singer, Noori musical band * Afia Nathaniel - Film Director * Bilal Lashari - Film director * Cyril Almeida -

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and assistant editor of ''Dawn''. * Gul Bukhari, Pakistani journalist * Haris Aziz, an artificial intelligence scientist who solved Fair cake problem in mathematicsSana Naeem, Rhodes scholar 2018 * Saman Tariq Malik, Rhodes scholar 2016 * Muhammad Mubashir Bin Latif, Rhodes scholar 2014 * Aalene Mahum Aneeq, Ertegun Graduate Scholar, Oxford University * Fahad Rafiq, Fulbright Scholar and Faculty Member UVAS, 2015 * Luqman Ali Afzal, founder of the Monal Group and a recipient of the

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award * Dr. Muneeb Ali, founder of Stacks, an open-source

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network that enables decentralized apps and

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* Tauseef H. Farooqi, current chairman of National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA). *

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, recipient of Tamgha-e-Imtiaz for her significant contributions to the national drama and film industry * Sakhawat Ali, recipient of National Innovation Award for his work in environmental sustainability and social entrepreneurship. * Mansoor Hassan Siddique (d. 2020), recipient of Tamgha-e-Imtiaz for his dedication to public service through his work at the Financial Monitoring Unit (FMU) at the

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. *

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, writer and director of ''Joyland'', the first Pakistani film to make it to the official selection at

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. His short film ''Darling'' won the Orizzonti Best Short Film award at the 2019

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. * Suneel Sarfraz Munj, Co-Founder PakWheels *

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, computer scientist

Research and reputation

The Office of Sponsored Programmes and Research (OSPR) of LUMS is responsible for promoting research at the university. The office is led by Shafay Shamail (PhD,

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). Between 2010 and 2014, the university spent PKR 680 million (or about $6.5 million) in research. During this period about LUMS faculty published 1287

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and received 80 external grants. The Suleman Dawood School of Business has produced more than 600 case studies and has published one of Asia's leading case research journals. Case studies written at LUMS are now used in universities across the world, including MBA programs in other Pakistani universities. In 2011, a case study written at LUMS by Shazib Shaikh and Zahoor Hassan won the Ruth Greene Memorial Award of the North American Case Research Association (NACRA) for the best case written outside North America. The LUMS School of Science and Engineering has published in international journals in Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. The biomechanics lab at LUMS is the sixth

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(ICC)-accredited cricket lab in the world, following those in

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. The lab is able to perform bowling tests of international and domestic cricketers whose

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s are deemed illegal. Additionally, LUMS publishes the ' Asian Journal of Management Cases' in collaboration with Sage Publishing Pvt. Ltd., focusing on case studies and management practices in Asia.

Technology for People Initiative

Technology for People Initiative (TPI) is technology and design nonprofit centre at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in

, Pakistan. It is focused on solving governance problems in the public sector through design thinking, prototyping and iteration. TPI's past and ongoing projects include evidence based policing for Lahore Police, CourtBeat for judicial courts, mapping rural Pakistan and the Bahawalpur Service Delivery Unit. The centre was founded in April 2012 with a seed grant from Google.org.

Rausing Executive Development Centre, Lahore University of Management Sciences

REDC placed under the aegis of the Suleman Dawood School of Business at LUMS, Rausing Executive Development Centre has been pioneering executive education in Pakistan. It is housed in a purpose built facility. From three programmes in 1989, REDC now lists 21 programmes in its annual calendar for Open Programmes and conducts 70 programmes every year inclusive of customized programmes. Other prominent research and development centres at the university include: * Centre for Water Informatics and Technology * Centre for Business and Society * National Incubation Centre Lahore * LUMS Energy Institute * The National Centre in Big Data and Cloud Computing * Centre for Islamic Finance * Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre * Centre for Chinese Legal Studies * LUMS Learning Institute * Centre for Continuing Education Studies * Gurmani Centre for Languages and Literature * Saida Waheed Gender Initiative The university also houses the Pakistan office of the

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University Advisory Board

The advisory board of the university consists of leading academics from around the world, current members of the board include: *Prof. Nicholas A. Robinson (

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) *Dr. Maria Yudkevich (

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) *Dr. David Wilkinson (

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) *Ms. Leah Rosovsky (

) *Dr. Greg Moran (

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO; branded as Western University) is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thame ...

) *Dr. Mehmood Khan (Life Biosciences) *Prof. Denise Chalmers (

University of Western Australia University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Crawley, Western Australia, Crawley, a suburb in the City of Perth local government area. UW ...

) *Dr. David Bloom (

) *Dr. Khalid Aziz (

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

) *Dr. Philip Altbach (

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private university, private Catholic Jesuits, Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1863 by the Society of Jesus, a Catholic Religious order (Catholic), religious order, t ...

) *Dr. Nancy J. Adler (

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Societies

*Rizq LUMS Society, the university chapter of the social enterprise Rizq, which was also founded by LUMS Alumni *LUMS Arts Society * LUMS Law & Politics Society * Sports Society at LUMS * LUMS Community Service Society (LCSS) * AIESEC LUMS Chapter
LUMS Students' Mathematics Society (LSMS)
*DANCELUMS
Riayat LUMS Chapter
*

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE has a corporate office ...

(IEEE) - LUMS Student Chapter * LUMS Emergency Medical Services, Pakistan's ever student-managed EMS established in a university campus with technical assistance from Rescue 1122 in 2008-09
LUMS Model United Nations (LUMUN)
* LUMS Society of Chemical Sciences & Engineering (LSCSE) * LUMS Finance Society (FINTRA) * LUMS Media Arts Society (LMA) * Society For Promotion and Development of Engineering and Sciences (SPADES) * The Music Society of LUMS * Debates and Recitations at LUMS (DRUMS) * LUMS Society of Professional Accountancy (LSPA) *FEMSOC (Feminist Society)
INDEX: The Design and Innovation SocietyLUMS Women in Computing (LWiC)
*LUMS Literary Society *LUMS Daily Student *LUMS Dramatics Society (Dramaline) *LUMS Policy Research Institute (LPRI) *LUMS Consultancy Group (LCG) *LUMS Religious Society

Gallery

File:The Cricket Ground at LUMS.jpg, The Cricket Ground overlooking the Male Hostel 7 (M7) and the Aquatic Center File:The LUMS Swings at Night.jpg, The LUMS Swings at Night File:Foggy Pathway at LUMS.jpg, A Foggy Pathway to the cricket ground and the aquatic center during the month of December File:Gad and Birgit Library.jpg, The eastern facade of the library building during an evening

References

External links

LUMS official website
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